OK, starting to panic now...

"Ash78, voting early and often" (ash78)
03/15/2020 at 12:07 • Filed to: None

The painters masked and primed everything yesterday, but now there’s a good chance of rain every day for the next week!

This is a disaster, how can we live like this?!

#firstworldproblems

DISCUSSION (21)

MultiplaOrgasms > Ash78, voting early and often
03/15/2020 at 12:23

You should protect the paint with toilet paper.

ttyymmnn > Ash78, voting early and often
03/15/2020 at 12:24

People are going to think you’ve sealed your house up against corona.

Kinja'd!!!

TheRealBicycleBuck > ttyymmnn
03/15/2020 at 12:29

My first thought when I saw the headline and the picture.

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > Ash78, voting early and often
03/15/2020 at 12:38

Well, T uesday and Wednesday look like your best bets

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > Ash78, voting early and often
03/15/2020 at 12:49

Painted brick? This is why we got corona.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > ttyymmnn
03/15/2020 at 12:58

all he wanted to do was phone home and the government was like hell no...

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > ttyymmnn
03/15/2020 at 13:38

Dude, you have no idea how much sick ET freaked me out as a kid when I saw that in the theater! My mom got an ET poster and I ripped it off the wall.

Ash78, voting early and often > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
03/15/2020 at 14:08

You should have seen the 70s Fantastic variegated Brown/tan crap that was there. Anything is better. And that’s what sells. Homes with plain brick just look old-fashioned now... it’s like laminate counters. Practical, but not ideal.

Ash78, voting early and often > TheRealBicycleBuck
03/15/2020 at 14:09

That was the joke ;)

Ash78, voting early and often > ttyymmnn
03/15/2020 at 14:09

Rainier Wolfcastle thats the joke.jpg

fintail > Ash78, voting early and often
03/15/2020 at 14:14

Looks like a shingled faux mansard roof too, very 70s.

I’d have kept it original, orange/brown kitchen and all, but brick houses are uncommon in my region.

Ash78, voting early and often > fintail
03/15/2020 at 14:20

Real mansard, but yeah — only so much you can do with that design. The brown on brown was just too apartment-looking.

Full brick is common down in AL, partly because most of the brick companies are in the region. OTOH, vinyl siding looks like a trailer park to us, but in cold northern climates makes practical sense.

fintail > Ash78, voting early and often
03/15/2020 at 14:59

It’s definitely a period design, popular here pretty much only during that decade. I’ve seen apartments with the same style, yeah. If I had a period house, I’d have to resist temptation to restore it to original, no matter how weird it may be.

Here, in the land of trees and lumber mills, wood cladding is the vast majority of housing, at any price point. Brick seems to have had a phase in the 30s/40s, with composite stone trim popular in the 50s/ 60s, but mostly wood before and after. Vinyl siding isn’t as common here as points east, but exists.

Stef Schrader > Ash78, voting early and often
03/15/2020 at 15:49

Call me old-fashioned, but I like not adding extra work like...eventually repainting brick. The wrong paint can also seal things up too much to the point where brick doesn’t breathe, so I hope y’all chose well.

My favorite house as a kid was yellow painted brick, and hoo boy, parts started looking tacky when the red started peeking through. :(

DipodomysDeserti > Ash78, voting early and often
03/15/2020 at 17:00

Around here flippers sand blast the paint off the brick and the homes sell like hot cakes.

Ash78, voting early and often > fintail
03/15/2020 at 20:19

We were vinyl and ugly brick, now we’re Hardie board and pretty brick :)

With the Mansard, we just decided to embrace the “ French Estate” look as much as we could. Put it off for 8+ years due to other priorities...

Ash78, voting early and often > Stef Schrader
03/15/2020 at 20:21

Solid concerns. The re-pointing and repairs for the 1973 brick was more expensive than the paint option ...and it’s 20-year paint, so I’m not too concerned about redoing it. There was never a time when this brick was attractive. Totally 70s, not pretty red or solid brown.

Plus we’re 90% sure we’re listing it for sale soon...that was the impetus.

fintail > Ash78, voting early and often
03/15/2020 at 21:20

I’d probably like the ugly brick, but yeah, vinyl can be removed without remorse.

Some kind of composite or metal roof might look good on the mansard, but $$$.

Ash78, voting early and often > fintail
03/15/2020 at 22:17

Or sometimes, a s home improvement guys like to say, “ vinyl covers a multitude of sins.” It tends to be what people slap on over top of other siding problems to hide it. Almost a red flag in our area since it was never done as an original siding choice.

I’d love a greenish/patina metal roof, but it’s so much square footage, I’d be looking at $30k or so (vs $10-$12k for shingles).

In hindsight, I’d never buy another mansard but everything else about the house was really well done. We’ve been here almost 10 years now, but this is the largest project yet.

fintail > Ash78, voting early and often
03/16/2020 at 00:01

My mom’s house has some vinyl, over maybe 70s era composite plank (on a 1920s house) - she just didn’t want to have to paint again, I don’t recall the old siding having real issues . It looks OK, I guess, more than 25 years later. But this climate is gentle as long as you give it a pressure wash every year or two.

Wood shingles scare me a little, always fires in this area during the summer. I also didn’t think of you having so much roof area, maintenance chore. I’m in an area with virtually unaffordable detached housing within what I consider a reasonable commute (average sales price in my zip is generally in the 1.2-1.5MM range ), so I have to live vicariously through the hell projects of others.

Stef Schrader > Ash78, voting early and often
03/16/2020 at 03:54

Ahhhhh yes. If repairs were involved, yeah. I get it.